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Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves a lot of problems for IT professionals trying to prepare their organizations to survive a disaster. At the same time, though, it also creates new challenges that need to be resolved prior to…

Hyperconverged architectures are a natural fit for medium to large size businesses that can house all or most of their applications within their environment. But hyperconverged vendors need to help businesses get started and help them extend the hyperconverged use…

Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. One question is what they do to solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environments have: DR? Virtualization itself has done wonderful things for DR,…

I am surprised by the results of a recent online poll that asked the question “What is your DR plan for your VMs?” Participants were given four choices: Built-in software replication Array-based hardware replication Third-party app Third-party backup service The…

You would think that with a modern software defined infrastructure like VMware or Hyper-V, the product would include disaster recovery. It technically is, but each product comes with limitations that can sometimes limit your choices. At the very least, your…

Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. The question is do they help solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environment have: DR? The answer may come down to what hypervisor they…

Hyperconverged infrastructure products promise to bring the best of virtualization to an easy-to-manage platform. One question is what they do to solve one of the greatest challenges modern IT environments have: DR? Virtualization itself has done wonderful things for DR,…

Scale Computing Briefing Note There are generally three ways one can use flash in a storage system. From a data management perspective, the all-flash array is the easy approach as one does not need to decide what will go on…

Most converged infrastructures are designed to help enterprise data centers rapidly roll-out virtual infrastructures. As we discuss in our column “What Are Converged Infrastructures? – Hardware Convergence” many of these converged systems are a pre-integrated optimization of independent hardware solutions.…

IT organizations are increasingly coming under pressure to deliver business application services with the same speed and agility as their public cloud counterparts. The bottom line is if IT can’t be responsive to the needs of the business, they may…